Posted May-17-2011 By

dannydandan

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@TommyBeast "Three things I love aside from the 80s is coffee,sex,and exercise which all three increase your risk of a stroke." OMG....you've got to be kidding me! I just ran 3 miles and I'm feeling..f...f............

Posted May-18-2011 By

poolmouse

It's funny how a snowball like structure can get close enough to the sun to even hit it. In other words, science is trying to fuck with us, there is more to the story, either a) Sun is not as hot at the surface as we'd think, or b) A comet is no fucking snowball...

Posted May-17-2011 By

velocity73R

@velocity73R SOHO watched as a fairly bright comet dove towards the Sun in a white streak and was not seen again after its close encounter (May 10-11, 2011). The comet, probably part of the Kreutz family of comets, was discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov. In this coronagraph the Sun (represented by a white circle) is blocked by the red occulting disk so that the faint structures in the Sun's corona can be discerned. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection blasted out to the right juMore..st as the comet is approaching the Sun.

Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields.

Posted May-18-2011 By

wharris

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@TommyBeast If he looked through a telescope at the sun because someone on the Internet told him to do so, he has much bigger problems than can be solved by me not telling him to look through a telescope.

Posted May-18-2011 By

wharris

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I'm not buying this.

Putting on my LL Astronomy hat:

Its hard for me to understand how a low-density object typically no more than 40km across, can create what looks like a massive coronal mass ejection, that spans about a quarter of the circumference of the sun (~680k miles)

Posted May-17-2011 By

matspur32

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